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BRIDGE OF CYCLES. 



ILLUSTRATED. 



DAYS AND DATES 



ILLUSTRATION OF THE 
NON-BISSEXTILE HUNDREDTH YEAR 

CENTURY CROSSING. 

ITS STRANGE 

BRIDGE OF CYCLES; 

THE LAST UNTIL THE 22nd CENTURY. 

INTRODUCTION AND SUPPLEMENT 
TO HIS FORMER WORK, BY THE AUTHOR OF 



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DAYS AND DATES," 



SAMUEL N. NORTON, 

ADDRESS, RIO VISTA, CALIFORNIA. 



Copyright, 1899, by Samuel N. Norton. 
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 

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Cognate Remarks. 



This Illustration, Introduction and Supplement to the 
recently published enlarged edition of "Days and Dates," 
etc., is its own apology for its own anachronism, if apology at 
all. Brief in free-handed exposition of the subject matter, it 
may well be found more satisfactory to the casual reader than 
the crystallized, in other phrase the frozen truth of the tabular 
statements contained in the main work to which this is tentative 
and auxiliary. The vital purpose and effect is to record for 
both Julian and Gregorian Calendars a perfect concordance, 
respectively, of all week-days and all month-dates of all years, 
ante and post. 

The Tables of "Days and Dates " exist in the logic of facts 
known alike to prince and peasant and are perfected under the 
immutable law of numbers; and therefore I, being but a waif 
upon an expiring syllable of recorded time, do without a shade 
of a shadow of presumption move Christendom to take knowl- 
edge, and especially, Governments to take legislative, executive 
and judicial knowledge thereof therein and herein. 

Samuel Newton Norton. 
Eio Vista, California, 

November 20, A. D. 1899. 

BASIC NUMBEBS. 

The consecutive succession of weeks is the basis of every 
enumeration and point in position stated as a concrete fact 
either Julian or Gregorian in the Tables of " Days and Dates," 
recently published. 

Next after every common year of 52 weeks and 1 day, the 
new-year day is 1 day in the order of week-days beyond the 
day that began the old-year; and next after every leap-year of 
52 weeks and 2 days, the new-year day is 2 days in the order of 
week-days beyond the day that began the old-year. This, since 
44 B. C. 

The reason of the rule is obvious without comment. I state 
it here because it is the unimpeachable substruction in the 
given succession of new-year days-of-the-week in the Tables of 
" Days and Dates," recently published. 



VASTNESS IN AVEKAGE. 

All Calendar accounting consists of vast averages upon 
actual time. 

The artificial years of Romulus and of Numa were both 
shorter than the natural year — the former preposterously so — 
and therefore dated beyond the natural solar seasons, that is, 
dated them forward; those of Julius Caesar and of Gregory XIII 
are both longer than the natural year — the former quite appre- 
ciably so — and therefore fall slowly backward, that is, date the 
seasons too early. 

The approximation of the Gregorian to Natural time is very 
close. The existing difference is vastly unimportant. And if 
in far future years it shall be found desirable and practicable 
to secure a general world-concurrence in dropping one-at-a-time 
at intervals of several thousand years apart surplus intercalary 
dates, the process will be only to designate and drop; the 
modification of my Days and Dates to fit the change will pro- 
ceed in my absence, doubtless; our present index cycle of 400 
years will cease to run, and another like, with a new initial, 
instantly march on until the next drop, and so on. 

ALWAYS EXCEPT CATACLYSM. 

In every period of 400 years the Julian system dates 100 and 
the Gregorian 97 leap-years — 3 day -dates difference; therefore 
in 122 periods of 400 years, Gregorian gains 366 day-dates, 
(a maximum artificial year-date) more than the Julian, in the 
same actual time. 

Hence, 400x122 == 48,800 Julian years — Kussian style (Greek 
Church) — would include and contain just 48,801 Gregorian 
years — Catholic and Protestant style — that is 48,801 years and 
about 13 J- days, of Nature's Sun Style. "D's and D's,'' re- 
cently published. It is there shown that Feb. 29, A. D. 200, 
would have been Feb. 28 under the Gregorian System, that 
March 1, and all subsequent dates until Feb. 29, A. D. 300, 
Julian, would have been common to both Systems, that the 
last named day would have been dated March 1, a gain of 1 
date for the Gregorian, that since that time similar gains 
amount to 3 dates in every 400 years until Feb. 29, A. D. 1800, 
Julian, was dated March 12, A. D. 1800, Gregorian, that Feb. 
29, A. D. 1900, Julian will bo dated March 13, A. D. 1900, 






Gregorian, 1 more day gain, and so on until Feb. 29 A. D. 
48,900 Julian is Feb 28 A. D. 48,901 Gregorian, and both run 
just 1 year apart the same month dates 100 years, and Feb. 29 
A. D. 49,000 is March 1 A. D. 49,001 Gregorian, 1 year and 1 day 
apart in dating the same actual time, of which, nearly 14 days 
will exist without date, even in the Gregorian, which will have 
overlapped them at the rate of less than half of 1 minute each 
year, by reason of its plus intercalary "error;" while the 
Julian with its precisely similar* but far greater "error" will 
have trespassed a full year more, at the rate of more than 11 
minutes a year. The effect is that their dates fall backward in 
the seasons; not that actual time is or can be "lost" at all. 

To practically equate with Nature, the Gregorian system 
will need only to drop a day-date every three or four thousand 
years if the world is willing. Easy quite when people agree. 

Just as it is now, the Gregorian would be a treasure to the 
world for all time. Recession of but a day-date upon the solar 
seasons during thousands of years is so slow and gradual that 
temporalities would conform by sheer habit alone and never 
suffer by it. And it would seem that anniversaries and memo- 
rial days, whether sacred, profane, or mixed, would not be 
seriously affected by such slight and slow changes in the 
weather — for, to make the full round of the seasons would 
require largely more than 1J million of years. 

LAST AND GREATEST. 

The year was the last disclosure to man in accounting natural 
time. Days were instantly suggested as in the beginning; there 
was evening and morning, 1 day. Then came the seven-day 
period for rest, doubtless from natural fatigue. Superstition 
and succession named months, and personal ambition often 
changed the names. The convenient divisions of the day into 
hours, minutes and seconds were familiarly marked by various 
devices long before the number of days in the year was even 
respectably approximated. Romulus the founder of Rome first 
guessed it 304; then 310; then gave up the ghost and the guess 
together; and Pompilius Numa his royal successor fixed on the 
number 365, long held by the Romans a gift of the gods — and 
it was indeed very close, for those times. 

But as the decades and centuries of years watched the fall 



The "similar" of Geometry. 



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of Persian, the decline of Grecian, the culmination of Roman 
empire, the 365-day year of Numa dated December weather 
gradually forward all the way to May, and veneration for the 
traditions of Numa prevented amendment. 

Even when Caius Julius Caesar at the height of his dictatorial 
power intimated the abrogation of the Numan calendar and the 
setting up of his own 365J-day year, the high-born wits, among 
them the peerless orator Cicero, made sportful ridicule of his 
intention. Not the less he decreed it, and that decree is his 
enduring fame to-day. Issued B. C. 46, to take effect B. C. 44, 
himself assassinated B. C. 45, the calendar of the great auto- 
crat commoner did take effect as prescribed, springing up from 
the blood-sodden ashes of his death-pyre at Rome to mark by 
annual month and day-dates the times and seasons for seeding 
and springing, flower and fruit, harvest and vintage, ruth and 
storm, during millenniums of years not then yet numbered — 
nor yet. The Russians and all orthodox Greek-Churchmen still 
account time by the Julian Calendar instituted B. C. 44, and 
adopted by the grand initial Christian Council held at Nice in 
Bithynia, Asia Minor, under tho auspices of the illustrious 
Imperator Constantine, A. D. 325. A full index cycle in the 
monumental mirror of Time's flight across the ages of darkness, 
precedes in "Days and Dates," recently published, the more 
sunwisely accurate Gregorian Calendar instituted A. D. 1582, 
and now dating for all Catholic and Protestant Christian 
nations. 

To the unquestioning obedience of his faithful Catholic 
Churchmen at the inception of his correction and amendments 
to the Julian Calendar, Gregory XIII owed the tardy but full 
compliance of the Protestants within two centuries later. Truth 
leaned on faith until identified as fact. Purely scientific and 
practical in its approach toward perfect definition in the Calen- 
dar year, the Gregorian System is, in catch phrase, "near 
enough ' to perfection. Absolute equasion rests forever yet 
with Deity. The Gregorian has since its inception in A. D. 
1582 advanced less than a full index cycle, but reflexion on its 
principle demonstrates that the least number of perpetual repe- 
tition is precisely 400 years. Tn " Days and Dates," recently 
published, the detail by years far exceeds and thus illustrates 
the index cycle of the Gregorian Calendar as applied to future 



time, up to A. D. 2282. Yet the application with equal certainty 
is implied to infinity. See Infra, p.p. 10, et seq. 

WHEREFORE ? 

Why was " Days and Dates " made ? To do good. To fill 
a place and meet a want not always though often keenly felt 
and never yet satisfactorily supplied. Its talk is talk, like this 
is, its Tables incarnate fact and work, every letter an archangel 
for truth, the Arabic sign its guidon in the plane of time. 
There is no lapse, omission or misplacing in the Tables of 
"Days and Dates," recently published. The substruction is 
without fault, and being so, requires correct reading and mental 
process, nothing more, to find the fact sought. It can neither 
be nor lead to error. The searcher must be certain in his search 
thereof not the less. 

The indispensable common Almanac shows for one year the 
concordance of days-of-the-week and dates-of-the-month. In 
that regard " Days and Dates" is the Almanac of all years, 
past and future, under either the Julian or Gregorian styles. 
The fact is easily demonstrable. Indeed the method of the 
work itself is demonstration. " Days and Dates " ought to live 
long as the existing Calendar Systems, for it is the truth of 
exemplification in their process. 

I premise that every Court of Record and all competent 
public functionaries in Christendom " take judicial knowledge," 
that is, accept in evidence without further proof, the week-days 
and month dates set forth in usual year almanacs. In view of 
the unimpeachable basic principles followed in the formation of 
the Tables in "Days and Dates," and the superlative care 
taken to give them a perfect letter press, free from mistake 
or lapse in any particular whatsoever, I respectfully suggest 
and bespeak for my work the like judicial recognition in con- 
cordance of days-of-the-week and dates-of-the-month during 
all years under the respective Julian and Gregorian Calendar 
Systems as that aforesaid quoted taken. 

General belief and confidence, neither in part nor with 
reserve nor halting, but conscientious, entire, full and free, 
would place " Days and Dates " in a position it deserves on its 
merits as a standard reference. The knowledge and confidence 
of the author amounts to certainty, and such I seek to impart. 



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Every sort of intelligent people have at least occasional use 
for the information found in " Days and Dates." In most such 
cases, the requirement is urgent, instant. In other phrase, 

" When you want it, you want it bad," that is, 'twould be good 
to have right off; and in very many cases it would be curious, 
pleasant, comfortable to know the concordance of a certain day 
of a certain year in the past or future as to its week-day and 
month-date. The satisfactions of humanity consist largely of 
trifles. Yet, ' ' Days and Dates " was made chiefly for business 
men and the uses of business, in commerce as well as in law — 
and all essentials else. 

THE SIMPLE CYCLES, 
Of New- Year Days-of-the-Week. 
We have said that new-year days-of-the-week conform to the 
inexorable law of 365 and 366- day years, and form the base of 
the system in "Days and Dates." 

tf These new-year days-of-the-week are repeated often, in 
perfect order according to the respective Julian and Gregorian 
plan of years. The period of such repetition is a cycle of each 
initial new-year day-of-the-week. The cycles differ in periods. 
The same period numbers are never consecutive in the Julian, 
and only at and laterally from the non-bissextile hundredth 
years of the Gregorian. There are but three simple cycles in 
the Julian, to wit: 5, 6, 11, years. There are five in the 
Gregorian, to wit: 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, years, but the single 7 and 
two 12s only appear at the non-bissextile hundredth years, 
when they always interlock each other and embrace the year 
jointly in the same form precisely, though not from the same 
initial days-of-the-week always. 

The situation exists at this moment, continuing from January 
1, 1898, to January 1, 1903, and will not agaiu be renewed until 
the dawn of the 22d century, 200 years hence. If disposed to 
superstition of the preternatural cast, we might quote the 
stupendous events in history during the 5-y ears- embrace by the 
single 7 aud two 12-year cycles, thrice performed in the last 
three centuries. But soft, we have more than three of our 5 
years, yet to run— the first If years has been astonishment. 
Unparalleled murder! Unparalleled victories! Unparalleled 
armaments exhibit the unspoken argument of force and fear 



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throughout the planet. In almost silence the giants pile Oeta 
on Ossa, Ossa on Pelion, Pelion on Olympus. All cannot end 
in preparation, and it, like action, must cease at times. 

Probably war is a necessity of human nature. We cannot 
erase the truth that man is created a fighting animal. It is 
better that he should fight some of the time than to be prepar- 
ing to fight, all the time. 

THE INDEX CYCLES. 

These of the Julian and Gregorian Systems, respectively, 
point to every day date cognate to each, as now practiced. 
The Julian carries its own, the Gregorian its own, each is 
known, and each according to its finite devices in system, is, 
through virtue in the law of numbers, infinite and infallible in 
process, however differing in respective results. 

Demonstration of these indicial periods by actual compari- 
son of items in the unimpeachable Tables of ' ' Days and Dates " 
is direct proof of them in the positive concrete, and dispenses 
with the less satisfactory abstractions of theory in mathematics. 

The concrete exists ; the abstract ratiocinates. 

JULIAN INDEX CYCLE. 

This is a composite of the simple cycles 5 + 6 + 11 + 6 = 28 
years, and at that period is repeated consecutively forever, and 
constitutes the entire system of New- Year Day-of-the-Week 
Cycles in the Julian Calendar. Every day named in the Julian 
is necessarily repeated under the law of numbers 28 years distant 
from its station in time date. Thus, the cycle repeated con- 
secutively forever becomes through its constituent members a 
perpetual index to each and all of them. Every multiple of the 
cyclic period is one of many consecutive repetitions of that 
primary and possessed of all its indicial quality except that of 
lesser duration. Hence 28x25=700 years, the first hundredth 
year Index Cycle of the Julian Calendar System. It is far more 
convenient for application than any lesser multiple or the 
primary itself can be. Of course any multiple of a multiple 
is a multiple of the primary and carries chief quality as a per- 
fect Index Cycle; as, 1400, 14,000, 56,000; no fear of error by 
reason of immensity. 

In the Julian the simple cycles 5 + 6 + 11 + 6 stand always in 
the same relation to each other as to succession, which is vibra- 



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tor j, so to speak, that is, in common speech, " back and forth." 
Either may lead but the order not be broken. Thus, they form 
either 5 + 6 + 11 + 6=28 or 6 + 11 + 6 + 5=28 or 11 + 6 + 5 + 6=28 
or 6 + 5 + 6 + 11=28 in the Julian Calendar, always. See Table 
I of " Days and Dates." 

GKEGOBIAN INDEX CYCLE. 

The composite cycle 5 + 6 + 11 + 6 = 28 years, cuts a large 
figure also in the Gregorian Calendar System, but is only inter- 
mittently consecutive there, therefore not permanently indicial. 
The simple cycles maintain the same relation and succession as 
in the Julian except when within the disturbing influence of the 
non-bissextile hundredth years with their strange cycles, the 
single 7 and two 12s and the quartette of triple consecutive 6s. 

The primary Index Cycle of the Gregorian Calendar is a vast 
and complex co-composite of just 400 years, and at that period 
is repeated consecutively forever, and includes the entire system 
of New-Year Day-of-the-Week Cycles in the Gregorian, as now 
and heretofore practiced. This Cycle invariably consists of 10 
composite Cycles of 28 and 3 of 40 years each, but no series, in 
its detail is ever precisely duplicated except in perpetual 
repetition of itself consecutively, both ante and post. 

Every day named in the Gregorian is necessarily repeated 
under the law of numbers 400 years distant from its station in 
time date. Thus, the cycle repeated consecutively forever 
becomes through its constituent members a perpetual index to 
each and all of them. Every multiple of the cyclic period is 
one of many consecutive repetitions of that primary, and 
possessed of all its indicial quality except that of lesser dura- 
tion. Thus, multiples of 400 years, as 800, 8000, 10,000, etc., 
etc., aro perfect Index Cycles of the Gregorian Calendar 
System. No fear of error by reason of immensity. 

The following is the series of sub-cyclos that make up the 
400-year perpetual index of A. Ds. 1601, 2001, etc. It shows 
tho important subordinate function of the 28-year and 40-year 
composites, and the curious links of Special Cycles near the 
non-bissextile hundredth years where the 40 year composite 
only <*md invariably appears. Every year of the 400 discloses 
resembling but not identical series, except in aggregate period 
and equal composites. Tho one hero presented covers the 



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17th, 18th, 19th, 20th CENTURIES; 
to wit: Years, beginning with A. D. 1601: 
6 + 11 + 6 + 5= ... - 
6 + 11 + 6 + 5= .... 

6+11+6+5= - 
6 + 12 + 11 + 6 + 5= .... 
6 + 11 + 6 + 5= - 
6 + 11 + 6 + 5= .... 

6 + 11 + 12 + 6 + 5= - 
6 + 11 + 6 + 5= - - . ' ■ 

6 + 11 + 6 + 5= - 
6 + 114-6^ + 6 + 6 + 5= - 
6 + 11 + 6 + 5= - - - - 
6 + 11 + 6 + 5= ■ 

6 + 11 + 6 + 5= - 

Ending with A. D. 2000= 400 years. 

Refer to Table 1 + , of " Days and Dates." 

The rather usual impression from a first glance at that 
Table I + of " Days and Dates," is that of a hopelessly tangled 
chain! Never think so. Not a link is misplaced or missing. 
The immutable law of numbers reigns there. Every letter and 
figure is correct and true. 

The Index Cycle is for all years, and perfectly flexible. 
Just 400 or any multiple of 400 years from any New-Year Day- 
of-the-Week, that day was and is to be forever repeated and 
followed by all other days of its year in their regular order of 
Qregorian time and each in separate cycle. 

In the Julian Calendar of "Days and Dates," the Tables 
and Index Cycle are equally correct, in that Style. 

THE CENTURY BRIDGE. 

Very likely the scientific author of the Gregorian Calendar 
never dreamed of the splendid muddle in new-year day-of-the 
week cycles that result from his dropping 3 of every 4 hundredth 
year intercalary dates. He was of mature years. The first 
drop was decreed for A. D. 1700. He could not hope to see it 
with mortal eyes that in A. D. 1582 had already seen the cul- 
mination of his physical powers. 

*A. D. 1899 is the 23d year of this composite. See Table I-f- of "Days and 
Dates. 

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Probably this incidental effect, if thought of at all was dis- 
missed as of no consequence. Yet it has consequences of much 
importance. From new and strange Cycles and grouping of 
Cycles joined with the old the great primary Index Cycle to 
the Gregorian System is finally derived; and demonstrated; 
although the practice of the System is more than four-score 
years short of a single tally on its own Index. 

The apparent eccentricity in 400 series of Gregorian Com- 
posites, not one of them the analogue of another and seeming 
to buffet each other with hopeless contradiction abstract and 
concrete, yet each immutably loyal to return at the guidon 
period of 400 years to its precise initial point of repetition, 
seems to me, even after study enough to demonstrate the fact, 
astonishment. Old Time himself appears as an adept in 
studied negligence. The stupendous echelon of 146,097 dates 
sweeps down the ages, each date in its separate cycle of 400 
years, forever repeating under the law of God's numbers the 
feeble invention of a human average upon actual time. It is 
supreme order reigning over chaos; and nothing less than the 
snail-like work of tabulating in Days and Dates could have 
convinced me beyond all doubt of its truth. 

I subjoin the first composite from each of several series 
taken at random from Table 1+ of " Days and Dates." 



A. D. 
1775. 
1776. 
1750. 
1782. 
1777. 
1779. 
1780. 
1792. 
1828. 
1819. 
1797. 
1791. 
1698. 
1583. 



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A. D. 

:40+, ending 2175. 



5+6+11+12+6=40+, 
6+5+6+11=28+, 
6+5+6+6+6+11=40+, 
6+1 1+6+6+6+5=40+ 
1 1+6+6+6+5+6=40+ 
5+6+12+11+6=40+, 
5+7+5+6+11 + 6=40 + , 

5 + 6 + 11 + 6=28 + , 

6 + 11 + 6 + 5=28 + , 

7 + 5 + 6 + 11 + 6 + 5 40 + , 
12 + 11 + 6 + 5 + 6=40 + , 
12+6+5+6+11=40+, 
11 + 6 + 5 + 6=28 + , 



2176. 
2150. 
2182. 
2177. 
2179. 
2180. 
2192. 
2228. 
2249. 
2197. 
2191. 
2098. 
1983. 



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Friday, October 15, A. D. 1982 will repeat, at the first per- 
petual Index Cycle in living practice of the Gregorian System. 
See Table II + of Days and Dates. It is noticeable. Every 
day-date of every year is a subject of the Index Cycle. 

The Century Bridge of Cycles, a voiceless monitor, a sheen, 
a glamor, a halo, a what-not, a mystic we heed not, a meaning 
we wot not, broods and beckons or shines and smiles at the 
crossing. There the two strange apostolic 12s toss their great 
arms interlocking over the non-bissextile hundredth year, and 
the sole 7 of all the Cycles extends its symbol of creation, inter- 
locking them both and it and us, even now. Two commoner 
lis support each regal 12, two sturdy plebeian 5s flank the 
sacred 7, and a quartette of triple-consecutive 6s settles upon 
the structure and completes — what might be a picture. 

The Time Chart at page 2, supra, presents a section of 24 
years, 12 on each side of the century crossing. Curved lines 
point out the various cycles and segments of cycles within the 
section limits. Numerals designate the 5s, the 7, the lis, the 
12s, but not the quartette of triple 6s which appears in 2 inter- 
lacing groups which would be marred and confused by perching 
a flight of figures 6 among them ; they are clearly known and 
shown by the 12 crowns of their 12 half circle line pointers; 
not one of +Jieir lines is cut by the section limits; they begin, 
respectively, at, and extend to> (observe the italics) New Year 
days, as follows : 

At 1889 Tuesday, to 1895, to 1901, to 1907; 

" 1890 Wednesday, "1896, "1902, "1908; 

" 1893 Sunday, " 1899, " 1905, " 1911; 

" 1894 Monday, " 1900, " 1906, " 1912. 

4 fractional pointer lines of 6s and 1 of 5, none of them with 

numerals, all cut by the section limits, all single simple cycles, 

all members of the grand 40-year composite, all peimitted to 

enter this cyclic parlor section set with but one foot, and, save 

one, all of same radii as the triple consecutives, must not be 

mistaken as of the latter though partly just as good looking; 

to wit, extending to 1891 a 6, to 1892 a 6; beginning at 1909 

a 6, at 1910 a 6, at 1912 a 5. 

Every item of the chart is justified by Table 1+ of " Days 
and Dates." I am sponsor for its designation as " The Century 



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Bridge of Cycles," which name is a pure draught of imagination 
upon Architecture inspiring geometric truth as of timo meas- 
ures by the Gregorian System. Its subjective points in numer- 
ical year dates and cycles have had heretofore, and while the 
Gregorian remains unchanged will have hereafter, the same 
geometric relation to every non-bissextile hundredth year; yet 
the names of days at those subjective points differ and repeat as 
absolute subjects of the Index Cycle 400. Thus, the day names 
of these subjective points in relation to A. D. 1900 will repeat 
for 2300 but not for 2200 nor 2100 nor either for either other. 
Nevertheless the subjective points will possess day names and 
The Century Bridge of Cycles will exist for all such years in 
same form, situation and cycles as for A. D. 1900. 



Against any possible doubt or denial whatever by whom- 
soever of any item in the Tables of "Days and Dates" I here 
set up in advance the formal law joinder, In nullo est erratum. 



CHANGE OF THEME— APROPOS. 

This chestnut grew within my own observation in early 
youth, near the country town of my nativity. There have 
been many versions, this is the true one. A clergyman, a 
good not old gentleman, essayed gardening for exercise, and 
one morning found a squash plant peeping from the ground 
apparently to him wrong end first. (The leaf base uppermost 
a.s orderly squashes are wont to do.) He with his trowel 
forthwith gently assisting raised the earth— not the planet — 
together with the plant— note that he " raised " that squash — 
and .set it down the other way, stood it on its head, looked 
at lirst wise, then otherwise, then earefully restored it to the 
normal position, smiled approval and— told it on himself for a 
moral. * * * * 

Everybody and hia wife liked that man and his wife. So 

did I not three Eeet high. May this Introduction to " Days 
and Dates" two years post acquaintance find so much <>f 

COnsiderateneSS as our minister gave to the squash. 



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